Top 1200 Blessings In Disguise Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that's when the blessings flow.

After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in all of them. Therefore, it is hard for me to say I am just one, when my heart recognizes the truths in them all.

After 'Student Of The Year,' when I played that baby-doll, diva character, I knew I would be stereotyped, and I wanted to break that image of me. I loved that role, but I don't want to be attached to one particular genre, so 'Highway' was a blessing in disguise.

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.

We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.

Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others.

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

If God has given me this many large blessings in such little time, why not help the people that need it?

Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

Happy Wednesday! Happiness is found from within when you learn to appreciate your blessings, LIVE in the present and LOVE!

I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.

Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse, Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.

I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.

Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.

Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

That's honestly one of the blessings of having a twin who shares your interests. You kind of get this mirror view of what you're capable of.

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

I think you're an acting teacher in disguise You're so incredibly intuitive and always passionate and always driven to go further. I never had to worry. All I had to do was look at you, babe.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.

Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.